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Eirik Fatland

Eirik Fatland is a larpwright, theorist, and founding member of the Nordic larp movement. He is known as a designer of dark, ambitious larps with political themes (Europa, Inside:Outside, and PanoptiCorp), strongly narrative and occasionally comedic larps (Moiras Vev, Marcellos Kjeller), and as a speaker and educator specializing in matters of larp design. He is in possession of a Norwegian passport, a Master of Arts degree from the University of Art and Design Helsinki, and a job in financial services.

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Theory

Elements of Larp Design

2023-11-07 0 Eirik Fatland

What is it larp designers actually design? How do players actually respond to design decisions? Are there any truths that apply to all the different kinds of larp design? Eirik Fatland presents his unpublished yet influential mid-level theory.

Theory

The Blockbuster Formula – Brute Force Design in The Monitor Celestra and College of Wizardry

2015-05-06 4 Eirik Fatland Markus Montola

2013 and 2014 may be remembered as the conception of the Nordic blockbuster larp. Two ambitious larps – The Monitor Celestra in Sweden and College of Wizardry in Poland – succeeded in attracting an unprecedented level of international attention from…

Documentation

KoiKoi – Drums! Rituals! Inaction!

2015-02-20 2 Eirik Fatland Tor Kjetil Edland

In July of 2014 we invited 75 players from around the Nordic countries to a wilderness camp in Finnskogen, Norway, in order to give life to a fictive hunter-gatherer society. For four days and three nights they sang, slept, woke,…

Elements of Larp Design

The Blockbuster Formula – Brute Force Design in The Monitor Celestra and College of Wizardry

KoiKoi – Drums! Rituals! Inaction!

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